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Television Series as Literature Edited by Reto Winckler · Víctor Huertas-Martín Television Series as Literature · Reto Winckler Víctor Huertas-Martín Editors Television Series as Literature Editors Reto Winckler Víctor Huertas-Martín South China Normal University University of Valencia Guangzhou, China Valencia, Spain ISBN 978-981-15-4719-5 ISBN 978-981-15-4720-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4720-1 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodology now known or hereafter developed. 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Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:152BeachRoad,#21-01/04GatewayEast,Singapore 189721, Singapore Acknowledgements This book is the result of an international co-operation of quite astounding proportions. We, the editors, met once for about 20 minutes at the ESRA conference in Gdan´sk, Poland in 2017. Two years, a few email exchanges between Spain and China and a call for papers later, we had chosen 16 out of more than 80 abstracts sent to us from around the globe. Another two years later, we are now looking at the finished chapters with awe and a deep sense of gratitude—if it isn’t amazing that these outstanding scholars, most of whom we have never met in person, havedevotedhundredsofhourstowritingthefollowingchaptersforthis volume, then what is? Our first big thank you therefore goes out to the people whose essays make up the bulk of this volume: Juan José Bermúdez de Castro, Kelly Beck, Natalja Chestopalova, Jenna Clake, Susan Cosby-Ronnenberg, Hyo-Jeong Lee, Giancarlo Lombardi, Pedro López-Osa, Walter Metz, Arturo Mora-Rioja, Jack Nicholls, Richard O’Brien, Sarah Olive, Karen Renner, Louie Jon A. Sánchez, Lukas Schepp, Katre Talviste and Sara Tanderup Linkis. We would also like to thank our no longer anonymous peer reviewer, Sarah Cardwell, for her enthusiastic and encouraging response to our project. In addition, we would like to extend our gratitude to Prabhu v vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Elangali, Manikandan Murthy, Connie Li and Sara Crowley-Vigneau at Palgrave-Macmillan for teaching us first-time editors about the ins and outs of editing and publishing a volume such as this. Reto Winckler V´ictor Huertas-Mart´in Contents 1 Introduction: Considering Television Series as Literature 1 Reto Winckler and Víctor Huertas-Martín Part I Theory 2 “As Literature” Approaches and the Academic Canonization of Television Studies 19 Karen J. Renner 3 Toward Sphere Theory 37 Lukas Schepp 4 The Poetics of Screenwriting: Approaching the Teleplay from a Literary Perspective 57 Pedro López-Osa 5 From Frenetic to Vivid: Phenomenological Reading of Immersive Television Narratives in Black Mirror and Russian Doll 75 Natalja Chestopalova 6 Simone de Beauvoir Meets Walter White: Breaking Bad as Authentic Literature 91 Kelly Beck vii viii CONTENTS 7 Literary Remediations of Contemporary Television Series: From The Familiar to Storytel Originals 109 Sara Tanderup Linkis 8 The Literary in Television, or Why We Should Teach TV Series in Literature Departments 129 Giancarlo Lombardi 9 The Teleserye as Literature and Pangako Sa ‘Yo 147 Louie Jon A. Sánchez Part II Practice 10 Rat Phones, Alligators, Lemon Pepper Wet: The New Absurd of Atlanta 167 Jenna Clake 11 Reading a Police Procedural as a Lyrical Text 185 Katre Talviste 12 Contemporary Fables in the Digital Age: A Literary Approach to Black Mirror 201 Juanjo Bermúdez de Castro 13 ‘University Politics’: Change and Continuity in Representations of Higher Education Between ITV’s Series Inspector Morse and Colin Dexter’s Morse Novels 221 Sarah Olive 14 Musical Paratexts: Song Lyrics in Television Series 241 Arturo Mora-Rioja 15 “It’s the Beauty that Hurts the Most”: Rectify as Televisual Novel 259 Susan Cosby Ronnenberg 16 “Draped in the American Flag, Burning”: Mad Men and the Literary Tradition 277 Hyo Jeong Lee and Walter Metz 17 “Read a Fucking Book!”: Reading for Redemption in Boardwalk Empire 295 Víctor Huertas-Martín CONTENTS ix 18 Shakespearean Sitcom: Upstart Crow, Shakespeare’s Plays and the Problem of Literature on Television 313 Reto Winckler Part III Postscript 19 Married at First Sight: A TV Literature Experiment 335 Richard O’Brien and Jack Nicholls Index 345 Notes on Contributors Kelly Beck was recently awarded a Master of Philosophy from the University of Queensland. Her thesis examined the relationship between philosophyandliteratureintheworkofSimonedeBeauvoir.Hercurrent research interests focus on the way philosophical and literary experiences shape perceptions of our contemporary everyday worlds. Natalja Chestopalova is a Writer and Researcher at the Centre for IndigenousVisualCultureatOCADUniversityinToronto,Canada.Her work is informed by the study of phenomenology, archival aesthetics, and psychoanalysis, and focuses on the transformative sensory experi- ence and multimodality in film, graphic novel and theatrical site-specific performances. JennaClake isaPoetandacademicwhoholdsaPh.D.fromtheUniver- sityofBirminghamandlecturesinCreativeWritingatTeessideUniversity. Her debut poetry collection, Fortune Cookie (Eyewear 2017), received the Melita Hume Prize, an Eric Gregory Award, and was shortlisted for the Somerset Maugham Award. Her pamphlet, CLAKE/ Interview for, was published by Verve in 2018. Her second full-length collection, Museum of Ice Cream, was published by Bloodaxe in 2021. JuanjoBermúdezdeCastroisaLecturerattheUniversityoftheBalearic Islands.Hehaswrittenseveralbooksandarticlesonpoliticalviolenceand the misrepresentation of minorities. His research interests are currently xi
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